Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz^✡ was the co-author of the RSS feed, co-founder of le Reddit and the founder of Internet activist group Demand Progress. He was bullied into le suicide by some US prosecutor who didn't understand that when you download something the original copy stays with the owner. He tried to put him Aaron away for at least 100 years for the digital equivalent of taking out too many library books.

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External Links

• Statement from Aaron's family
• Slashdot reacts
• Reddit co-founder's death ignites journal access debate
• Asher_Wolf blogs about it

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